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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

5th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

One tires of the streetcars of Paramaribo, the mineral railways of the Amazon, and even of rural Albania in the 1980s. Railway Review’s roving reportage shall change continents and seek excitement (but not too much) [more…]

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Great Uncle Wally

16th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Great Uncle Wally introduced me to Guinness. Well, to be fair Mackeson, its slightly sweeter cousin. A stout more adapted to the tastes of your average seven-year-old. Those regular Sunday trips during the late 60s [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Three

7th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Chamberlain Square Having checked out the Council House and Town Hall during our day trip to Birmingham, myself and Mrs AWS nip around the back and into Chamberlain Square, the centrepiece of which is the [more…]

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Disaster at Quintinshill

6th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Setting off from Edinburgh on a splendid May day, Mrs. AWS and I enjoy our Burger Kings. In the mad world of railway pricing, one of only two differences between Avanti Trains Standard Premium and [more…]

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Liquid Thoughts on Beer

22nd September 2022 Going Postal 0

I was gratified recently to find that my uncle, John Alldridge, occasionally took time off in the 1940s from reporting World War II and its aftermath to concentrate on more important matters, as can be [more…]

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